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I don't like being skinny. I've been skinny my entire life. Last year, I was 6'0 and 135 pounds. I started working out and eating more. I'm up to 160 and look a

I don't like being skinny. I've been skinny my entire life. Last year, I was 6'0 and 135 pounds. I started working out and eating more. I'm up to 160 and look a lot better. I don't look like I'm starving, I fit in my shirts a lot better, etc. If you want to gain weight and are interested in a food hack, buy lots of milk. Over here it's about $1/1000 calories. You can't beat that. I drink half a gallon a day and it's done wonders for me. You probably want to be weight lifting if you do this though.

stevenjames 17y ago
could also eat lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
- pmorici 17y ago
  Peanut butter and jelly is horrible for you. Peanut butter just has a bunch of sugar in it.
  - yummyfajitas 17y ago
    That may be true for some brands. Smuckers (the kind in my fridge) contains only peanuts and salt.
    - pmorici 17y ago
      As it is the brand in mine but a lot of people eat that trash, Jiffy, or Skip for example, and you might as well just each a candy bar at that point.
      - pingswept 17y ago
        A very interesting typo-- Jif or Skippy, I think you mean.
      - LogicHoleFlaw 17y ago
        My guilty snack - peanut butter and nutella sandwiched between two tortillas. I call it the Tortilla Abomination.
      - mikeryan 17y ago
        You keep saying this, but if you browse the Peanut Butter's here http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-j-m-creamy-natural-peanut-i95144 http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-j-m-creamy-natural-pe... You'll find that most commercial peanut butters only have 2g or so more of sugar per serving then their natural counterparts.
        evgen 17y ago
        The serving size for peanut butter is also around 2T (~30g) so that 2g of sugar is basically going to double the sugar content of the serving...
        mikeryan 17y ago
        Yeah but 3g is < 10% of the 40g of recommended sugar in a day and way less then the 50g in a Snickers bar. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_daily_recommended_intake_for_sugar http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_daily_recommended_inta...
  - Raphael 17y ago
    I'd be more worried about the partially hydrogenated soybean oil isn't so great.
sofal 17y ago
Being skinny definitely has its downsides. I've only recently begun weight lifting 3 times a week and running for half an hour 3 times a week. Walking into a gym for the first time is a very intimidating experience. It seems like every man in the entire place could crush my skull just by flexing their pectorals. I'm pretty tall too, and I feel like a friggin' grasshopper among all the manly men. It's all but impossible for me to increase my weight. One advantage I guess is that I can already do 3 sets of 8 pullups.
eoyola 17y ago
Don't forget the rule of moderation esp. with milk.
lanaer 17y ago
135 lbs. at 6'0"? Wow. I’m 6', and when my weight got down to 140lbs, it was obviously unhealthy. Didn’t have enough in me to keep me going, really. Currently at 165, and ok there. Trying to get to ~180.

stevenjames 17y ago

could also eat lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

pmorici 17y ago
Peanut butter and jelly is horrible for you. Peanut butter just has a bunch of sugar in it.
- yummyfajitas 17y ago
  That may be true for some brands. Smuckers (the kind in my fridge) contains only peanuts and salt.
  - pmorici 17y ago
    As it is the brand in mine but a lot of people eat that trash, Jiffy, or Skip for example, and you might as well just each a candy bar at that point.
    - pingswept 17y ago
      A very interesting typo-- Jif or Skippy, I think you mean.
    - LogicHoleFlaw 17y ago
      My guilty snack - peanut butter and nutella sandwiched between two tortillas. I call it the Tortilla Abomination.
    - mikeryan 17y ago
      You keep saying this, but if you browse the Peanut Butter's here http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-j-m-creamy-natural-peanut-i95144 http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-j-m-creamy-natural-pe... You'll find that most commercial peanut butters only have 2g or so more of sugar per serving then their natural counterparts.
      - evgen 17y ago
        The serving size for peanut butter is also around 2T (~30g) so that 2g of sugar is basically going to double the sugar content of the serving...
        mikeryan 17y ago
        Yeah but 3g is < 10% of the 40g of recommended sugar in a day and way less then the 50g in a Snickers bar. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_daily_recommended_intake_for_sugar http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_daily_recommended_inta...
- Raphael 17y ago
  I'd be more worried about the partially hydrogenated soybean oil isn't so great.

sofal 17y ago

Being skinny definitely has its downsides. I've only recently begun weight lifting 3 times a week and running for half an hour 3 times a week. Walking into a gym for the first time is a very intimidating experience. It seems like every man in the entire place could crush my skull just by flexing their pectorals. I'm pretty tall too, and I feel like a friggin' grasshopper among all the manly men. It's all but impossible for me to increase my weight. One advantage I guess is that I can already do 3 sets of 8 pullups.

eoyola 17y ago

Don't forget the rule of moderation esp. with milk.

lanaer 17y ago

135 lbs. at 6'0"? Wow. I’m 6', and when my weight got down to 140lbs, it was obviously unhealthy. Didn’t have enough in me to keep me going, really. Currently at 165, and ok there. Trying to get to ~180.